Meteors Attack Earth!

The link below is to the BBC website showing a video of a meteor strike in Russia today.

bbc.in/VYdvMs

Space junk, asteroid or comet splinter or alien attack? Probably one of the two former suggestions! It also seems Hollywood have got meteor strikes very wrong in the past as they always seem to hit the US, or at least New York! Who’s ever heard of a meteor strike in central Russia.

But wait, not all is lost Hollywood. I just learned that an asteroid 150ft in diameter will miss the Earth by a mere 17,000 miles tonight at 19.25GMT. That’s closer than the geosynchronous satellites that orbit our planet. That line could grace any meteor-oriented Hollywood blockbuster. Speilberg, take note! It trips off the tongue so well. Or you could go with: That’s no moon. But I fear that’s been done before! 

Before you run out and build a shelter, apparently there’s no risk of impact from it or any splinters. Its closest approach will be 19:25 GMT, so I doubt you would have time anyway.